Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She directs its initiative to decentralize economic power and level the playing field for independent businesses. She has produced many influential reports and articles, designed local and federal policies, and collaborated to build effective coalitions and campaigns. She addresses the question of “...
May 16, 2022•42 min
Sarah Crowell is a dancer and choreographer who has taught dance, theater, mindfulness and violence prevention for over 35 years. She founded the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company, which was the subject of two documentary films, and won the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award. Sarah has facilitated arts integration, violence prevention, cultural humility, and professional development sessions with artists and educators since 2000, both locally and nationally, and is the recip...
May 09, 2022•38 min
Christina Baldwin is a writer, wanderer, and teacher on the trail of community and story; she is co-founder, with Ann Linnea, of PeerSpirit, Inc. and The Circle Way Process, bringing modern structure and application to the human heritage of circle. Christina is the author of 7 books, including (with Ann) The Circle Way, A Leader in Every Chair; Storycatcher; Life’s Companion; Calling the Circle; and The Seven Whispers, Spiritual Practice for Times Like These . She works cross-culturally and inte...
May 02, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Stephanie Rearick is the Founder and former Co-Director of the Dane County TimeBank (DCTB) – a 2800-member time exchange, and Creative Director of Mutual Aid Networks, a new type of networked cooperative. In addition to her work in timebanking and growing grassroots-up economic and community regeneration, Rearick is co-owner of Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That “mutual aid networks are found throughout all livin...
Apr 25, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF), which focuses on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition. Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians, and systems thinkers, ISEOF assembles road-maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles. Nate holds a Master's Degree in Finance from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of...
Apr 18, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Kristi Nelson, Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living, is also the author of Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted . Her life’s work in the non-profit sector has focused on leading, inspiring, and strengthening organizations committed to progressive social and spiritual change. Being a long-time stage IV cancer survivor moves her every day to support others in living and loving with great fullness of heart. She addresses the question of “What Co...
Apr 11, 2022•36 min
Stephen Dinan is an author, speaker, and the founder and CEO of The Shift Network, an organization that delivers virtual summits, courses, and trainings on spirituality, peace, holistic health, psychology, parenting, enlightened business, shamanism, indigenous wisdom, and sustainability. Stephen helped create and directed the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory & Research, and is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and Evolutionary Leaders. He is the author of Sacred America...
Apr 04, 2022•41 min
Hear from our host Vicki Robin in this solo episode, as she reflects on the themes emerging from “What Could Possibly Go Right?”, including: The challenges of cultural scouting and remaining open to seeing the whole picture within “growing social insanity” The limiting nature of polarized thinking, seeing things in binaries, and overgeneralization That navigating this unraveling together requires empathy and “leaning on the insights from all points of view” Local examples of what’s going right, ...
Mar 28, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Akaya Windwood facilitates transformation. She advises, trains, and consults on how change happens individually, organizationally, and societally. She is on faculty for the Just Economy Institute and is founder of the New Universal, which centers human wisdom in the wisdom of brown womxn. She was President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for many years and directs the Growing Roots Fund, which supports young womxn’s finance and philanthropic learning and leadership based in generosity and inter...
Mar 21, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Peter Lipman is the former (founding) chair of Transition Network and Common Cause Foundation. He also chaired the UK government’s Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Community Energy Contact Group. He’s been a teacher, a co-operative worker, an intellectual property lawyer, and worked at UK charity Sustrans, latterly as external affairs director, before setting up Anthropocene Actions, a community interest company that promotes fair, loving, and ecologically regenerative societies. He ad...
Mar 14, 2022•39 min•Ep. 70
Helena Norberg-Hodge is a linguist, author, filmmaker, the founder of the international non-profit organization, Local Futures, and the convenor of World Localization Day. A pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social, and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. In addition to authoring her latest book Local is Our Future , Helena produced and co-directed the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness , and is the author of A...
Mar 07, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Sherri Mitchell is the Founding Director of the Land Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the global protection of Indigenous land and water rights and the preservation of the Indigenous way of life. She was born and raised on the Penobscot Indian reservation (Penawahpskek) and teaches around the world on issues of Indigenous rights, environmental justice, and spiritual change. She is also a co-host of the syndicated radio program Love (and revolution) Radio, an author, and a Post Carb...
Feb 28, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Billy Wimsatt is founder and Executive Director of the Movement Voter Project , an organization that works to strengthen progressive power at all levels of government by helping donors – big and small – to support the best and most promising LOCAL community-based organizations in key states – with a focus on youth and communities of color. Billy has 20 years of experience in journalism (published in Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, etc), social entrepreneurship (co-founded several organizations...
Feb 21, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Tami Simon hosts the popular Sounds True podcast, Insights at the Edg e , which has been downloaded more than 20 million times. With its guiding principle “to disseminate spiritual wisdom”, Sounds True has grown into a multimedia publisher that has produced over 6,000 titles, has been included twice in the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing companies, and is North America’s leading publisher of spoken-word spiritual teachings. She is also the founder of the Sounds True Foundation, which is ded...
Feb 14, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and a renowned lecturer who has keynoted conferences and led workshops on the impact of commerce upon the environment. Hawken has consulted with governments and corporations throughout the world and has appeared in numerous media including the Today Show, Bill Maher, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, and has been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles including the Wall Street Journal , Newsweek , Washington Post , Busines...
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Toyia T. Taylor is the Founder and Executive Director of We.APP and is a highly sought-after educator and motivational speaker, who has used her voice to inspire audiences nationally and internationally. Toyia has dedicated her life to community service, social justice and performing arts. Her awards have included the Wonder of Women (WOW) Award, the National Council of Negro Women Incorporated, Style and Substance Award, and the Education for Social Justice Award from Girls for Gender Equity, I...
Dec 14, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth, and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional m...
Dec 07, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Since 1967, Dr. Susan Campbell has been a couple’s therapist, relationship coach, speaker, workshop leader, trainer of professional coaches, college professor, certified Radical Honesty trainer, and founding teacher of the Getting Real work. The Getting Real work is a body of communication and awareness practices that foster personal healing and social evolution. She has written eleven books on relationships, including several best-sellers. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go R...
Nov 30, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Miki Kashtan is a “practical visionary”, exploring the application of the principles and tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to social transformation. She is an author, certified NVC trainer, and co-founder of Bay Area NVC (baynvc.org). Miki teaches and works with organizations, visionary leaders, activists, and others to support the transition to a world that works for all. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That having big practical probl...
Nov 15, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 61
In another solo episode, our host Vicki Robin shares her recent reflections on themes emerging from the “What Could Possibly Go Right?” inquiry, including: The lessons from studying polarization in ourselves and in wider society That “we need to soften the animosity and find cracks where the light comes in”, negotiating and learning so we can work together on the big problems we are facing That “we are a nation of neighborhoods”, adapting to change as best we can in our communities The fact that...
Nov 09, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Ann Randolph is an award-winning writer and performer. She has performed her solo shows in theaters across the U.S, garnering awards along the way including the Los Angeles Ovation Award for “Best Solo Show” and the San Francisco Bay Critic’s award for “Best Solo Performer.” Mel Brooks produced her first big hit, Squeeze Box, Off-Broadway. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That in these times, more people are feeling compelled to tell their st...
Nov 02, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 59
John de Graaf is an author, award-winning documentary filmmaker, speaker, and activist “with a mission to help create a happy, healthy and sustainable quality of life for America.” He was the Executive Director of Take Back Your Time and co-founder of The Happiness Initiative. Since 1977, he has produced more than 40 documentaries, and dozens of shorter news stories and films. He is the author of books including international best-seller Affluenza , Running Out of Time and Hot Potatoes . He addr...
Oct 26, 2021•38 min•Ep. 58
Sky Nelson-Isaacs is a physics educator, speaker, author, and musician. He brings together the connection between synchronicity, physics, and real-life using research and original ideas. An educator with nine years of classroom experience, with experience in the industry as a software engineer, Nelson-Isaacs is also a multi-instrumentalist and professional performer of award-winning original musical compositions. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts includin...
Oct 19, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Kamea Chayne is a Hakka-Taiwanese creative, writer, the author of Thrive, and the host of the Green Dreamer podcast. Known for her perceptive commentary and incisive questioning, she's interviewed over 200 sustainability, social justice, and public health thought leaders. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That "we just have to constantly reiterate and hone and create synergies with other people who have diverse different views."...
Oct 12, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 56
William Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, is one of the world’s best-known practitioners of negotiation and mediation. William is co-author of Getting to Yes , a fifteen-million-copy bestseller translated into over thirty-five languages, and most recently author of the award-winning Getting to Yes with Yourself . He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That anger is a fuel essential for change, but the key is in whether it is deplo...
Oct 05, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 55
In this bonus episode, Post Carbon Institute brings together the hosts of its two podcasts: What Could Possibly Go Right? and Crazy Town. Our host Vicki Robin sits down with the guys from Crazy Town to cover climate change, empathy, the stages of grief, and other related topics. Follow WCPGR/Resilience.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilience Learn More: https://bit.ly/wcpgr-res Supp...
Oct 01, 2021•56 min
Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His latest book is The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World . His previous international bestsellers, including Empathy, The Wonderbox and Carpe Diem Regained , have been published in more than 20 languages. Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on making economics fit for 21st century realities. She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries and co-f...
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Our host Vicki Robin takes a turn in the hot seat, asking herself “What Could Possibly Go Right?” After more than 50 episodes in the program, Vicki reflects on the emerging themes and shares thoughts as a cultural scout, including: The four acceptances she is making to find more serenity and avoid burnout in activism The benefits of returning to ritual, connection, and cultural liveliness That "we're all working against an outdated, outmoded paradigm, that must fail to liberate the cre...
Aug 17, 2021•40 min
Douglas Rushkoff makes a return appearance to the series with fresh insights on our core question of What Could Possibly Go Right? Listen to his previous interview on episode 28. Douglas Rushkoff is an author, documentarian, and host of the popular podcast, Team Human . Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He addresses our question a second time with thoughts including: The importance of contentment...
Aug 10, 2021•59 min
Dany Sigwalt, Executive Director at Power Shift Network, has spent much of her career moving between movement building and youth leadership development, working to marry the two into one cohesive strategic reality. She cut her organizing teeth providing solidarity childcare for housing rights advocates in DC, fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the Occupy DC movement. She joined Power Shift Network in 2016 as Operations Director and has been supporting the organization in explori...
Aug 03, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 51
